Category:Works Progress Administration

**Works Progress Administration**
	United States government New Deal agency (1935–1939) employing millions of unemployed people to carry out public works projects WPA poster encouraging laborers to work for America, showing a farmer and a laborer
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Instance of	independent agency of the United States government;
Part of	New Deal (1935–1939); Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 (1935);
Location	United States of America;
Official language	English;
Inception	6 May 1935;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	30 June 1943;
Follows	Federal Emergency Relief Administration;
Different from	Works Progress Administration;
Authority file
	Q1200079; ISNI: 0000000121718685; VIAF ID: 141803196; GND ID: 116650-5; Library of Congress authority ID: n81081809; IdRef ID: 144213737; Libraries Australia ID: 36557716; NORAF ID: 2028083; BabelNet ID: 03361648n; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA13948893; Open Library ID: OL2330150A, OL4917856A, OL3602571A; Union List of Artist Names ID: 500227524
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This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.

Works Progress Administration administrators (13 C, 8 F)
Works Progress Administration by U.S. state (49 C)
Works Progress Administration by U.S. territory (1 C)

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Art sponsored by the Works Progress Administration

Media in category "Works Progress Administration"

The following 19 files are in this category, out of 19 total.

High Point, North Carolina - Upholstering. Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Co. Seamstress - upholstering - sewing and cutting of cloth 16-1490a.gif 600 × 429; 82 KB
Isadore Possoff - Pennsylvania Coal Miner, 1936 or 1937.jpg 1,144 × 1,500; 518 KB
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rugs. Hardwick and Magee Co. 16-1727a.gif 600 × 427; 103 KB
Photograph of Document Flattening, Humidifying Chamber, Work Projects Administration (WPA) Project - DPLA - abf25073b2f301ef36034c54e3447335.jpg 4,392 × 5,817; 3.53 MB
Protest WPA relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec .15. David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, and Mary Gorman, research worker for the same organization, led WPA workers from 28 LCCN2016874549.jpg 7,977 × 9,953; 9.12 MB
The manual of the Survey of Historical Records.jpg 2,048 × 2,048; 569 KB
US work progress administration logo on sidewalk Levelland Texas 1939 (1).jpg 1,920 × 2,560; 2.32 MB
US work progress administration logo on sidewalk Levelland Texas 1939 (2).jpg 2,560 × 1,920; 2.37 MB
Usa work program.jpg 452 × 450; 25 KB
USA work program.svg 472 × 470; 28 KB
Works Projects Administration cornerstone on Baker County Courthouse, Macclenny.JPG 4,320 × 3,240; 4.46 MB
WPA march in front of the U.S. Supreme Court LCCN2016871147.jpg 10,064 × 8,095; 8.06 MB
WPA stone work at Riverside Park, Long Prairie, Minnesota.jpg 640 × 480; 147 KB
WPA worker with paycheck.gif 500 × 370; 104 KB
WPA workers protest relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. WPA workers from 26 states, head by David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, today protested to Assistant Administrator LCCN2016874550.jpg 9,936 × 7,908; 8.84 MB
WPA workers stage march in fight for reinstatement. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. Police were as numerous as the marchers today when over 2000 dismissed W.P.A. workers, assembled here by the LCCN2016872231.jpg 10,004 × 7,977; 9.4 MB
WPA-USA-Sign.jpg 475 × 475; 120 KB
WPA-USA-sign.svg 255 × 257; 19 KB
ЦНАП Новокаховської ОТГ.jpg 4,032 × 1,960; 1.52 MB

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